Lacing-loop.



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LAGING LOOP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES LAQlNG-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,678, dated April 19,1904.

Patented April 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE."

GEORGE W. PRENTIGE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Application filed July 23, 1903. Serial No. 166,707. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it kn own that I. GEORGE W. PRENTIGE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing-Loops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shoelacing devices; and it consists, essentially, of a lacing-loop formed from a sheetmetal blank having a' plurality ofoppositelydisposed dependingattaching-prongs integral with the table member and having the adja cent or inner edges of the table united by a bent tie, forming an arch or loop for the reception of a shoe-lace, all as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

Certain forms or types of shoe-lacing devices heretofore produced have been provided with eyeleted' or pronged bases and open hooks, in which latter the lacing-cord is held. In producing such former lacing-hooks. the cost of manufacture is materially increased from the fact that they are made from specially-prepared stock and blanks which cannot be transformed into the finished product except by a comparatively slow process. serious disadvantage or objection to open lacing-hooks is that the hook portion thereof when in use frequently abrades the contiguous part of the dress or hem of the skirt of vantage is that the lacing-loops may be readily affixed to the shoe by means of machines or hand implements substantially like those employed for securing pronged button-fasteners to shoes.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings.Fig

- ure 1 is a plan view, in enlarged scale, of the or leather. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 represent a modification of the lacing-loop, the views corresponding with Figs. 1, 4, and 2, respectively. The thin flat blank 0, Fig. 1, from which my improved lacing-loop is formed is cut or punched from suitable sheet-metal stock. The blank has two oppositely-disposed parallel wings the ends 0 of which are adapted when bent to form attaching or clenching prongs. The said wings are connected by an integral transverse central tie (Z, capable of being bent to form an arch or loop (Z The center portion of the outer ends or edges of the blank extend laterally beyond the wings, as at d, thereby increasing the area of table or base surface. The s'aid blank a is transformed by suitable mechanism into the complete lacingloop A.that is to say, each wing is bent downwardly and inwardly toward the center one hundred and eighty degrees, the extensions (Z' then being contiguous to eachother and centrally of the base or table 25; The ends 0 of the wings are bent downwardly and at the same time swaged, thereby forming the four sharpened attaching-prongs 0. The tie member d is bent in a direction opposite to the prongs, thus transforming it into the semicircular loop d all as clearly represented in Figs. 2, 8, and 4:. lVhile the said member d is being shaped longitudinally it is also bent in the opposite direction or transversely, thus making the tie substantially round cross-sectionally, the edges then meeting on the upper side at m, Fig. 5. The thus-formed eye orloop presents no angular edges or rough surfaces. Therefore the lacing used will be less liable to excessive wear.

The manner of attaching the improved other pronged fasteners. Fig. 5 represents the loop thus secured to a flexible material f, as leather, the prongs 0 having been forced therethrough and clenched thereunder. The relative arrangement of the prongs is such that a table or base t having a comparatively large area is produced.

In the modification represented in Figs. 6, 7, and 8 the blank (4 has two pairs of Wings adapted to be converted into eight prongs.

IO The connecting-tie d is in this case interme diate of and parallel With said Wings. As thus constructed, the eye or loop 01 of the lacing-loop forms a practically complete circle. (See Fig. .7.)

Witnesses:

JAMES B. ARNOLD,- GEO. H. REMINGTON 

